THE struggle to create a governance structure for the Scottish Rugby Union which can work for everyone in the sport in the professional era will face a critical moment when a Special General Meeting for the governing body is held at Murrayfield this evening.
Member clubs will be asked to vote on proposals which have been painstakingly drawn-up by the SRU Council’s Standing Committee on Governance [SCOG] with the aim of establishing a long-term solution to the governance problem which has been a running sore in Scottish Rugby since at least the summer of 2018, when a series of scandals uncovered a dysfunctional relationship between the Scottish Rugby Council (elected by the clubs to oversee the sport) and the Scottish Rugby Board (hired to run the business).
